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Why is OpenAI buying a VS Code fork???

2025-05-08 Science & Technology
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OpenAI is buying Windsurf for $3 Billion. Yes, $3 Billion. As insane is this number sounds, there's actually a decent reason for it... Thank you G2i for sponsoring! Check them out at: https://soydev.link/g2i Want the best AI chat app ever made? Check out T3 Chat: https://soydev.link/chat SOURCES https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/22/why-openai-wanted-to-buy-cursor-but-opted-for-the-fast-growing-windsurf/ https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-agrees-buy-windsurf-about-3-billion-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-05-06/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/04/cursor-is-reportedly-raising-funds-at-9-billion-valuation-from-thrive-a16z-and-accel/ Want to sponsor a video? Learn more here: https://soydev.link/sponsor-me Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at https://t3.gg S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Top Comments (10)

@aitakaitov7312 2025-05-08

The average developer on LinkedIn visits once every few years to find a job and will otherwise try to avoid the circlejerk that LinkedIn is. It doesn't surprise me that the LinkedIn poll ended as it did - most people I see posting on there are recruiters, HR people, C-suite, founders, or weirdos, so the results are somewhat expected.

325 6 replies
@Chano-h2h 2025-05-08

Only 35 minutes? Theo is uploading YouTube shorts at this point

289 4 replies
@faiz697 2025-05-08

Curious...if AI is already here for our job, why didn't OpenAI just vib coded windsurf during weekend ?? Could have saved billion of dollar

172 19 replies
@Blacksheep877 2025-05-08

OpenAI: "Everyone now can code, this will reduce the cost of software massively" Proceeds to buy a fork of something open source for 3bi Something is not adding up...

132 12 replies
@imfilou 2025-05-08

A vs code fork is worth more than Minecraft back in the days... this world is upside down

132 12 replies
@nerdalert1980 2025-05-08

Can we get an updated vid on Zed and its new autocomplete & agentic features?

34 3 replies
@joshshrad 2025-05-08

I will say the original Codeium was super underrated at the time because it was a free forever copilot alternative

27 3 replies
@ErikAutomates 2025-05-08

We all forget that Microsoft owns 49% profit share of OpenAI, essentially Microsoft buys its own fork

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@alight4045 2025-05-08

They need to train models on our codes and the best way is to buy and IDE that more developer uses so they can train their models on our codes without us realizing it

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@harunyussuf3593 2025-05-08

This shit costs more than what took to build the tallest building in the world, burj Khalifa (1.5 billion)

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